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From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
Simon Callow describes Orson Welles' journey to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
  1. From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
    01:45
    From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
  2. Squashing Words
    05:58
    Squashing Words
  3. Books I’ve Written
    02:35
    Books I’ve Written
  4. Making a Leopard Monster
    04:35
    Making a Leopard Monster
  5. Superpowers
    08:09
    Superpowers
  6. Steve’s Monsters
    02:19
    Steve’s Monsters
  7. Making a Monster
    08:35
    Making a Monster
  8. Alien Stink Song
    05:04
    Alien Stink Song
  9. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
    03:16
    Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
  10. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  11. Andrew Hunter Murray's Fringe picks
    00:44
    Andrew Hunter Murray's Fringe picks
  12. "Socks that agreed with him"
    00:15
    "Socks that agreed with him"
  13. Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
    03:10
    Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
  14. Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
    04:26
    Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
  15. James Kelman: Too Scottish?
    03:04
    James Kelman: Too Scottish?
  16. Watching Taken with your mum
    00:31
    Watching Taken with your mum
  17. Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting 2
    01:39
    Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting 2
  18. Sage Francis
    03:52
    Sage Francis
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